This is a recording of David Bassiouni (Chairman & CEO of New York-based The Bassiouni Group; Former Senior UN Staff, South Sudan Regional Minister of Agriculture & Natural Resources) on Towards Nationhood: The Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving Unity and Nationhood in South Sudan. The recording also includes audience questions.

This presentation is one of several contributing to a one-day conference on the theme of ‘Ecological Impacts of Proposed Jonglei Canal, National Identity Crisis, Communal Conflicts and the Peace in South Sudan’. The conference was convened on Saturday 5th November 2022 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford and was organised by The Sudanese Programme in collaboration with the South Sudanese community (UK) and the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College.

Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi and Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustees of The Sudanese Programme) chaired the conference.

We are grateful to all conference participants (speakers and audience) who kindly gave their approval for their contributions to be included - everyone was given the option not to be included and to let the programme organisers know if they preferred to opt out.

The other presentations are available on The Sudanese Programme YouTube channel as edited videos.

If you would like to receive info about future events being organised by The Sudanese Programme, e-mail us info@sudaneseprogramme.org to receive our e-mail updates or subscribe through the Contact page of our website https://www.thesudaneseprogramme.org/contact

The Sudanese Programme Conference 2022 November: Ecological Impacts of Proposed Jonglei Canal; National Identity Crisis; Communal Conflicts and the Peace in South Sudan

Towards Nationhood: Challenges & Opportunities for Achieving Unity & Nationhood in South Sudan

This is a recording of Geoff Holden who, in the 1980s, was a secondary school teacher in Sudan.

This presentation is one of several contributing to a one-day conference on the theme of ‘Economic, Political and Social Consequences of the Military Confrontation in Sudan’. The conference was convened on Saturday 10th June 2023 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford and was organised by The Sudanese Programme in collaboration with the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College.

Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi and Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustees of The Sudanese Programme) chaired the conference.

We are grateful to all conference participants (speakers and audience) who kindly gave their approval for their contributions to be included - everyone was given the option not to be included and to let the programme organisers know if they preferred to opt out.

The other presentations are available on SoundCloud and also The Sudanese Programme YouTube channel as edited videos.

If you would like to receive info about future events being organised by The Sudanese Programme, e-mail our Chair of Trustees, Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi to receive our e-mail updates or subscribe through the Contact page of our website www.thesudaneseprogramme.org/contact

Geoff Holden, From Our Own Correspondent - You are in my country; it is my duty to look after you

Promoting Knowledge and Understanding of Sudan and South Sudan. The Programme's remit is above politics, ethnicity and religion.

Geoff Holden, From Our Own Correspondent - You are in my country; it is my duty to look after you

The Sudanese Programme

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